Contests

The Pukas Pro contests were f***king raw. Parties and surf. You either attended or you were a fool. Those contests defined an era. A generation. It was wild, a time were internet didn’t exist and pros were coming to enjoy. San Sebatian and the villa of Zarautz were a pressure cooker. Late morning calls, voted by surfers as the best contest on tour, ASP recognitions and pros such as Sunny Garcia,Andy Irons, Bruce Irons, Kalani Robb, Shane Dorian, Ross Williams, Tom Carroll, Damien Hardman or Taj Burrow left their footprint in the making of an epoch. It was Pukas’ biggest international leap. It was the shit.

1995 // Pukas OP Pro

1996 // Pukas OP Pro

1997 // Pukas OP Pro

Playa de Zarautz

1st. Taj Burrow (AUS)

2nd. Victor Ribas (AUS)

1999 // Pukas Ballantine’s Pro

Playa de Zarautz

1st. Shawn Sutton (HAW)

2nd. Shane Bevan (AUS)

What is Pukas.

“Pukas Surf is a family driven company based in the Basque Country and has built a reputation for making quality high-performance surfboards and custom bikinis. Mixing a global view and a local knowledge, the group has been able to feed their surf addiction since they first handshaped a surfboard in 1973.

Along the way came the surf shops, the surf contests, the friends and the parties, the surf Factory, the profesional Pukas surfers, the good and the bad, the surf schools and the stokedness; Surfing at its finest. Pukas is surf and always will be.”